The roads already steal slight amounts of energy from the car when the pavement flexes. This is more akin to regenerative braking, in that it's harnessing wasted energy.
Regenerative braking is teriffic because you are conserving the energy that would be wasted while the car is slowing down anyway. It's not desirable to add any more drag to cars that are cruising down the road.
Now adding this to off-ramps and places where cars are always decelerating anyway, that is where this technology should be used if anywhere.
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of course energy can't be had for free, or come from no where.
This would be stealing slight amounts of energy from the cars driving over it.
Essentially this would be petroleum powered electricity.
The roads already steal slight amounts of energy from the car when the pavement flexes. This is more akin to regenerative braking, in that it's harnessing wasted energy.
Regenerative braking is teriffic because you are conserving the energy that would be wasted while the car is slowing down anyway. It's not desirable to add any more drag to cars that are cruising down the road.
Now adding this to off-ramps and places where cars are always decelerating anyway, that is where this technology should be used if anywhere.